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When Full Lives Become Too Full: The Hidden Cost of Over-Scheduling Our Children

Leave a Comment / Children (4-10), Health, Home Culture, Relationships, Toddlers (0-4), TSG Principles, Youth (10-18) /

By Nicholeen Peck A few years ago, a mother sat across from me with tears in her eyes, not because her fifteen year old daughter was failing, acting out, or spiraling emotionally, but because something unexpectedly beautiful had happened. Her daughter was doing everything right. Cheerleading. After school clubs. Leadership programs. Volunteer hours. Music lessons. […]

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Impulsivness, ADHD and consequences

Leave a Comment / Health, Using TSG Skills /

 “My son has ADHD…My main concerns are the impulsiveness…and  the fighting with his brothers- he literally cannot walk past without hitting them, punching them,   teasing them.  Car rides can be a real nightmare.  (The therapist says “just leave him home sometime”— yah- he’s 6 years old, I can’t just leave him home alone,  and leaving him with a neighbor would reward him for misbehaving in the car- ugg).  Needless to say- we stay home a lot.” 

I have had many youth, with many impulses, come to live with me.  Each one is uniquely diff

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Should I Medicate?

1 Comment / Children (4-10), Health, Using TSG Skills /

“Help! I’ve been browing your website for a couple of days. Trying to find some answers- If I had the $ I’d be sending for the cd’s. But it’s not in the budget right now. I’m totally at my wits end with my 6 yr old.

I don’t know what else to do. He is ADHD- We’ve had him in with a counselor, and I have an appointment to talk about meds this afternoon. I don’t want to do meds for adhd, but I have to try something, because everything I’ve tried isn’t working. He’s only 6! I really don’t want to do meds, but I don’t know what else to try.

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